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flossy

adj

Etymology

From floss + -y.

  1. derived from *fleus✻
  2. inherited from *flos✻
  3. derived from *plewk-✻ — “hair, fibres, tuft”
  4. derived from *flukkô✻ — “down, piece of wool, flock”
  5. derived from *flokkō✻ — “down, wool, flock”
  6. derived from floccus — “piece of wool”
  7. derived from flosche — “down, velvet”
  8. borrowed from floche
  9. suffixed as flossy — “floss + y”

Definitions

  1. Resembling floss.

  2. Extravagantly showy

    Extravagantly showy; flashy

    • The latest example of 30's camp-nostalgia opened last week at the Colonial for a three-week run; it is a big, flossy, stylish revival of Good News (vintage 1927), with Alice Faye, John Payne, and would you believe Stubby Kaye?
    • I am a go-getter, stay fresh and looking flossy Haters out here can’t stop me, throw blows like Ronda Rousey

  3. A female given name, diminutive of Florence.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA